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Secular humanism (a respectable term even though it became a right-wing swearword) stubbornly insisted that morality need not be based on the supernatural. But it gradually became clear that ethics without the sanction of some higher authority simply were not compelling...
...most magnificent master of the swearword who ever inhabited Kings Tavern was a bricklayer who was also an accomplished artist, painting in oils and watercolors. He swore in multi-syllables, interspersed profanity between dictionary words, such as: "This is the most non-Goddamn-son-ofabitching-sensical suggestions I ever heard of!" Nobody since Joseph Pulitzer Sr., who invented multi-syllable swearing, had heard such poetic loquacity...
...squadron was a ' quiet one. It flew with a steady hand and did not stunt. It did its job and then talked about something else. It groused a bit for the good of its health, but on the whole it was brave, cooperative, steady, unboastful. Its pet swearword, which it picked up from Al Frank, was "Oh, Krause!" Its pet salute was what Red Wages described as a Jap salute: both hands, fingers spread...
Presidential preoccupation with naval affairs was not solely to blame. An anti-inflation speech would not be the most popular speech the President could make right now. Inflation is an economist's swearword; but a lot of other people are for it so far as it seems to mean higher prices for what they have to sell. Not an organized group, some potential members of the Friends of U.S. Inflation could be counted last week...
...helpful diagrams. Co-author Infeld writes with lucid, straightforward simplicity, not devoid of patches of whimsey-as, for example, having shown how modern physics banished the concept of a jelly-like ether which carries light waves, he thereafter refers to the ether, when necessary, as if it were a swearword: "e-r." The authors admit that the avoidance of mathematical languages involves a certain loss of precision. But the loss is held to a minimum because they try not to paraphrase mathematical procedure, but to follow trains of physical thought, trace the origins from which they sprang, show the ends...
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